DIANA: I still to this day find the interest daunting and phenomenal, because I actually don't like being the centre of attention. When I have my public duties, I understand that when I get out the car I'm being photographed, but actually it's now when I go out of my door, my front door, I'm being photographed. I never know where a lens is going to be. A normal day would be followed by four cars; a normal day would come back to my car and find six freelance photographers jumping around me. Some people would say, Well, if you had a policeman it would make it easier. It doesn't at all. They've decided that I'm still a product, after 15, 16 years, that sells well, and they all shout at me, telling me that: `Oh, come on, Di, look up. If you give us a picture I can get my children to a better school.' And, you know, you can laugh it off. But you get that the whole time. It's quite difficult.

The invasion of Princess Diana's personal life by the relentlessness of the paparazzi is appalling. It is with deep regret that the world has lost one of its brightest stars as a direct result of the greed of the "media". Isn't it a a shame that only after such a tragedy, laws will be enacted to curtail this type of "stalking". God Bless the Princess of Wales and her family, especially her two sons William & Harry.

One story relating to this is that the crowd beat up one of the photographers taking pictures without offering help. What a tragedy if gruesome pictures of a sticken Di reach the tabloids. Hard to say what was going on inside that Mercedes, that one report says was speeding at 120 mph. But it seems likely they were trying to shake off these relentless paparatzi. Laws should be passed to restrict this kind of media stalking, kili1.

Apparently, four of the papparrazi are going to be charged with manslaughter. Possibly one of the flashes from cameras may have blined the driver. The car hit a pillar in the middle of the road. Diana's brother said that every news media person pursuing here has "blood on his hands today."

PAPPARAZI SHOULD BE PROSUCUTED AND PUT TO DEATH

[WWW, Aug 31, 1997] - Memorial.Net opens a permanent public memorial for Princess Diana. By visting the web site: http://www.memorial.net/diana you can view, and POST a memorial for the late Princess Diana. The site is designed to be a lasting reminder of someone who has effected the world, and became "the world's most photographed woman" (in addition to other titles!). There is no charge to post or vist the site, and the site is not transitory, it will remain active forever.

The Los Angeles Times has put together a comprehensive package of information composed of staff reports, wire services and other information on the life and death of Princess Diana. Point your browser to http://www.latimes.com to see our overall Diana package. We will have our continual coverage on our site over the next week. Thank you for your consideration. --Rob. Rob Cioe Electronic Editor Los Angeles Times rob.cioe@latimes.com http://www.latimes.com 213-237-7002

SUCH A LOSS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. WE SHALL MISS HER. SHE DESERVED TO BE HAPPY. IT'S A SHEME! PRESS'S WRIGTHS HAS LIMITS!

SUCH A LOSS FOR SO MANY PEOPLE. WE SHALL MISS HER. SHE DESERVED TO BE HAPPY. IT'S A SHAME! PRESS'S WRIGTHS HAS LIMITS!

Has anyone reading this ever tried to take a picture in a tunnel at night while driving a motorcycle moving at 120 mph??? Who would believe that there were 7 people doing this? I wonder how accidental this accident was.

Diana's grace, kindness and compassion will not soon be forgotten. The world will be in a state of mourning. Her life was a tragic one, and she deserved far more than she got. the only possible comfort in this whole trsgic situation is that perhaps she has found peace. My thoughts and prayers go out to her children and to her family. I hope that the Royal family will contine the work that Diana started and to honor to her memory.

Diana's life and work gave joy to millions. Her death, sadness to more. Her spirit will live forever.

I am sorry to see such a beautiful and caring person taken from us. Now she will have the peace she deserves. Rest in peace Diana, the people will miss you.

I will admit that I don't know much about Princess Diana. I was only 2 years old when she married Prince Charles and recieved the title in 1981. However, from what I know about her, I view her as a caring, loving, and beautiful woman. She had a soul of a savior by helping people in need. Princess Di was a well known woman to everyone of various age groups world wide. I view some of the paparazi as sick individuals with no moral respect whatsoever. Especially the individual who attempted to take photos of the accident, and got mobbed by people mourning the scene. Aren't these reporters feeling guilty at all of what they've caused already? Without them chasing the mercedes, all in the vehicle would be alive and well. We should all give suppo t to her family, especially her two young sons William and Harry. I hope that paparazi will learn from this accident that Enough is Enough. Princess Di's loving soul will live forever in the hearts of people everywhere. I have hope for the future that with all of Diana's help with charities, people will follow her and help those in need. A tradgity...though a loving soul that will never be forgotten.

I was very saddened by the death of Princess Diana, the paparazzi who stalked her should be punished by the most severe means available. Diana was a public figure but she was also a human being who deserved to be treated with the same respect as "normal" people. The world has suffered a tragic loss and my prayers are with her sons. GOD BLESS THE CHILDREN!!

I just caught an NBC bulletin that the Publisher of the Inquirer is asking for a world wide ban on buying the crash scene pictures. They're already on the market for sale. There were pictures taken before the police arrive and the crowd beat up the papparazi taking them.

My personal opinion is that any of the paparazi whom would endanger the lives of others like they did in this high-speed chase, should recieve the same kind of punishment that the party they were chasing recieved as a result of just trying to evade the press. For instance, when Princess Diana (may she rest in peace was killed in that auto accident, the paparazi that were in pursuit of a quick buck should also be put to death. They should be put to death by stoning by the public. Just my thoughts. May Princess Diana rest in peace.

Five photographers were taken into custody by French police for their involvement. One guy was taking pictures with a commercial camera 15 seconds after the accident happened, according to the BBC. Diana single handedly gave a measure of respect to the dysfunctional royal family. She carried on a mission to help people with AIDS, homeless people and her travels highlighted trouble spots around the world. Her presence lent credence and sustained these causes. Do you feel, like I do, that these good qualities of hers came to the fore in her untimely death. I find myself feeling a true kinship with her now that I never realized while she was alive. I was most profoundly affected by seeing the pictures of her with Mother Theresa, who I greatly admire. The Royal Palace set up an official condolences website at http://www.Royal.gov.uk The Red Cross has declared that the recent advances in the campaign against landmines were largely the result of Diana's public visits to Angola and Bosnia. AIDS charities say she is irreplaceable. She broke Royal tradition by touching and coming in to close contract with people stricken with AIDS and deadly diseases. Unlike the Quen and Prince, who lead insular lives. Someone said that had she lived she would have become a mix of Audrey Hepburn and Eleanor Roosevelt, I agree. Perhaps through a little of Mother Theresa and Jackie Onassis into the mix. The dysfunctioning Royal family owes her a Royal Funeral with a week of resting in State for the dignity and grace she has brought to them. Hopefully, Charles can take up a cause or two on her behalf instead of carrying on with a life of polo and weekend excursions and affairs out of his marriage. Hopefully, Diana has brought the kids to a state where he can't mess them up too much. If you have to cry over this, let it rip. Diana is deserving of our tears and our respect.

A very good exposition on the paparzzi is on Robert Aldridge's site: http://webflier.com/WebPilot/Articles/diana.shtml Amond other things, he states: "the children of this very nice woman are now going to have to live the rest of their lives not seeking the advice of their mother. They will not have her there to scold them when they do something wrong, or to kiss them good night, ever again. They will not see their mother's joy when they are at the altar getting married, or for her grand children. They will not have a mother to fuss over them before the prom. And all of this was caused by some idiots' greed for that one photo that could turn the heads of the world and put big bucks in their pockets." And he has created a Ban paparazzi logo that he encourages folks to use on his website.

I know others have touched on this topic, and I mean in no way to trivialise Diana's death, but, really, what about the children? Robert Aldridge said it beautifully and that is the main focus of my thoughts in these times. Diana was a generous, kind, dedicated person, living a life to help the lives of the less fortunate. Yes, the media has become a rampaging bull who, as an infant, was controllable, but now has matured into a greedy, ruthless and near unstoppable force. But for William and Harry, none of this means anything to them. They have prematurely lost a mother. *Their* mother. By whatever circumstances, by whoever is to blame, it is a tragic and always terrible loss. They have barely begun to live, and they have suffered more, have been put through more, and *will* suffer more, then many other people together. Age wise, I confess to being barely older than William, and maybe that is why I feel so strongly about this. By birthright, they are robbed of their personal dreams, their youth, their anonymity, their margin of human error, normal friendships, relationships and life. And now, their mother. So whatever they are going through now, especially William who holds a greater weight on his shoulders than most of us could imagine, my thoughts and consolations are with them. May they one day, like their mother, find true happiness before they die.

We have also created an interesting message and discussion board. Please feel free to use it at your convenience. It's at http://www.icom.com/diana/.

It is being suggested that the bodt meeting in Ottawa in two weeks adopt a unilateral ban on land-mines, and name the treaty after Diana. I propose a petition to that effect. Let her not have died in vain.

I want to give the families of all the people involved in the car carsh on France my deepest sympathies. I pray for the families of both the driver and Princess Di's boyfriend. It seems that they have not been given much attention. We have to remember that there were two other people besides Princess Di that perished in the accident. Iam also apalled at the fact that the press is treating the situation as a criminal act. This is something her family does not need especially her two sons. May she and her f mily and the other families be in "peace"!!!

These other victims deserve our prayers and thoughts as well. And one of the victims, who is still alive, may live to tell the story of what happened in that tunnel that night. She outwitted the Royal family of England and raised her kids with compassion and caring. Against the royal families advice, she put them in a less staid school and took them to visit AIDS patients. She was a loving mother who cared about her children. The royal family doesn't show emotion. They don't touch other people. Diana broke with tradition and reached out to folks. Her lineage goes back to King James and King Charles I. She was chosen at 19 years old to become Charles wife to insure succession. If you look at the videos of her going through hospitals and AIDS clinics you got the feeling that she wasn't just doing a photo op, you got the feeling that she was truly involved with these people. I just saw a video of her in a childrens hospital and she stopped and looked at the board, noticed a piece was missing and reached down to the floor to replace it. The little boy was beaming with joy and she bent over to hug him. As far as the paparrazi, some laws need to be made to protect celebreties and they also need to exercise caution in evading and countering them. Perhaps, at this point, Charles should tell the Archbishop of Canterbury to take a hike, his faith has faded in to obscurity. After a number of years and Diana has received her due respect, he should be free to remarry. It's possible that Charles decieved Diana into marrying without know about Camilla, but we don't know all the facts in this do we? And, as a man, I can't hide the fact that she was one of the most desireable women in the world, she was someone you would die to meet and to get to know. She was tall, slim and had this demure mystique about her. She appeared to be someone who would be easy to get along with. Boycott the sale of tabloids. When you go through the checkout line at the supermarket, give a letter to the checkout person that says you object to the sale of publications that support lies and stalking of people.

I heard from Robert Aldridge today, one of the people organizing the tabloid ban. A few posts back I quoted him but when I copied and pasted it, the credit line dropped out, and there is a nice link and a link back to http://www.webflier.com along with the quote that I didn't include. Apologies Robert for my hastiness and sloppiness in that post. Also. the use of the ban paparazzi logo was intended to be used by others and we intend to use it in some context here on the Spring, perhaps on our main page. Folks should feel free to copy the GIF off of Roberts site, or link directly to the GIF on his server. Either way. If you link directly to the GIF on Roberts server, please use the GIF at http://www.webflier.com/cgi-bin/diana.pl Please link the GIF either to http://www.webflier.com or http://www.webflier.com/WebPilot/Articles/diana.shtml . You may choose which. Robert will probably expand on this topic further and such, and linking will give people a place to go to view the various different things/protests, etc. not to mention share their feelings and read others. Robert says he may be adjusting the GIF to read "Can the Paparazzi" or something like this. He would like to make it more specific to Paparazzi and not make it sound as broad as applying to all media. At any rate, we gladly join with you Robert Aldridge in your tabloid ban. We'll keep watching your site.

This just in from CNN. Now we have a drunk limo driver. And passengers not wearing seatbelts. I wonder what the guy who is in the hospital's saying, he had to be in the front seat.

To add to the above, apparently the driver was a former Air Force pilot and was trained by Mercedes Benz, according the an ABC news flash. He knew how to drive. But his alcohol level may have been very high. There was a duplicate topic created and only one response was posted, so I am moving it here Item 22 entered Sun, Aug 31, 1997 (17:48) by L de Sousa (lies) PRINCESS DI MURDERED! PRINCESS DI WAS MURDERED BY THE ROYAL GOON SQUAD! WHAT A CONVENIENT AND BELIEVABLE WAY TO GET RID OF HER. WHO WERE THESE SO-CALLED PAPARAZZI/HIT MEN, AND WHAT POWERS THAT BE WERE BEHIND THIS? ACCIDENT? I DON'T THINK SO. COMMENTS ANYONE? My comment, this is highly speculative. As are the websites saying that they "guaranteed" that Princess Diana would die several weeks ago. And this goes for all the conspiracy theories. All this stuff seems groundless and highly speculative. Show me some hard evidence. The paparazzi are definitely not off the hook. There's going to be an annoucement by the French Police in an hour about whether they will be released or charged within an hour.

Dave Bailey recommends these newsgroups for more news: alt.journalism.criticism alt.politics.media alt.activism Those paparazzi will be charged with failure to aid at the scene of an accident, unconfirmed.

What do you think will happen to the royal family? Respond by E-mailing me at rhass@ix.netcom.com

I know the truth!! Princes Di was taken by Alien to the fifth dimension of our solar system!!!!!!!!She now lives with Elive and and very happy........ Does anyone know where I could get a good second hand Mercedes ????

Princess Diana was not taken by aliens

This is all a conspiracy. Princess Diana did not die but decided that if she was dead then no one would bug her anymore. She is living a new life and with a new identity. The reason she spent a while at the Hospital is that she was changing her whole identity, just like Face-Off. PS. She should have driven a SAAB or Volvo instead.

I urge a national boycott against the sale of tabloids in honor of Princess Diana beginning the day of her funeral . I am looking for help in distributing flyers as well as picketing at the airport against the sale of tabloids. If anyone would be interested in helping, please e-mail me at: XTABLOID @AOL.com. or call 512-288-4596. Thank You, Yolanda Stobaugh

Four of the main pages regarding the death of Princess Diana are coming together and joining forces. Together, we will be an awesome force in our crusade to stop the paparazzi. You can visit the site by clicking on the "Stop the paparazzi" button in the main screen of www.spring.com, or go directly to the page by going to http://www.meer.net/~walterh/privacy.html Thank you! Walter H. Hopgood, walterh@squidge.org

We'll actually be setting up a permanent Diana page where you can find the 'stop papparzzi' button at http://www.spring.com/dian.a.html And it's good to see a hometown effort! Good work.

All kids can send condolences directly to Buckingham Palace, or just Chat about Diana by clicking here. This site offers a chance for children to deal with the untimely death psychologically. This site was voted the hottest childrens shopping site on the internet last week by Starting Point. Thousands of kids monthly come to this site!! We'll give reciprocal links to other sites of this kind!! Email me, FINDBEANIE@AOL.COM for more information!

PAVANNE Play Ravel. The princess now has died. We've always wondered who she was, and now We know and know not still. We have no way Of knowing whom to mourn. How do you grieve The stuff of tabloids and the TV news? I've fathered daughters and I think I know A princess when I see one. That she was. And sons I have too, little princes once. The mother now has died. I know that grief-- To lose the only one who understands. I am a husband, too, and have a woman Who has borne sons and has borne again. Whom does he grieve when her he's thrust away? How does he sorrow for her that he shamed? And now that she is dead, is he a man? The paparazzi told us who she was, Will tell us who she was again, again, Again. Can we believe them now that they Have killed the goose that laid their golden eggs? Or can we ever trust their words again? It was our voyeurism killed the princess, Killed we know not whom, deprived her children Of their mother. God forgive our greed. Jesus was right, "Father, forgive them, for They know not what they do. He died; she died. ................................... Arthur B. Devlin August 31, 1997 [adevlin@blomand.net]

I asked Susan Sweeney for permission to reprint the following story. On this visit, Diana stopped and touched each little child with cerebral palsy and only gave a nod to the wealthy and titled visitors at the program. Discovering New Hope http://www.ieway.com/~ssweeney/article.html By Jamie Tobias Neely Staffwriter Mother and daughter want more children to have the option to try Conductive Education The story of 11-year-old Susanna Sweeney-Martini's trip to England to meet the princess begins like a fairy tale. There was the moment Princess Di's green Jaguar turned through the gate of the National Institute of Conductive Education in Birmingham and roared onto the grounds. There was the moment the princess wafted into the room "like a piece of paper floating in the air " There was the instant that Di hoisted a baby from the crowd to her shoulder and didn't flinch a royal eyelash when he drooled all over her designer suit. But in the unexpected moment when Princess Diana walked right over and sat down to talk with Susanna and her mother, Susan Sweeney of Spokane, real life and controversy intervened. Princess Diana asked why one of her pet projects, Conductive Education, for children such as Susanna with cerebral palsy, was having such a difficult time taking off in the United States. The answers point to a global dispute over the proper treatment for children with cerebral palsy and, at the same time, illuminate the struggle of one determined mother from Spokane. It all began in 1991 when Susan Sweeney, a Spokane special education teacher and lawyer, took her daughter to Hungary for Conductive Education. Doctors had predicted Susanna would never sit, stand or walk. She had been strapped in a wheelchair from age 2. Finally, in Hungary, Susanna and her mother found hard work, and a miracle. At the Peto Institute in Budapest Susanna learned to sit, stand and take a few steps alone. When she returned, her pediatrician, Dr. Peter Holden, pronounced the results "dramatic." Susan Sweeney struggled to find ways to continue Susanna's treatment in the United States. Most doctors, physical therapists and contacts at the national cerebral palsy organization weren't interested. When Susan said, Can I have more? the world said, " No" Susan does not take "no for an answer," says Thomas Martini, Susanna's father and Sweeney's ex-husband. In the years since Susanna's trip to Hungary, Susan Sweeney has fought a lack of money and information to start the Association for Conductive Education. She has opened a private school modeled after the Hungarian institute here in Spokane. "If she couldn't bring Susanna to the mountain, she's bringing the mountain to Spokane, rock by rock," Martini said. Today, blue-eyed, blond Susanna is as bright and articulate as her lawyer mother. The two have appeared on national television, and are among America's leading advocates of conductive education. That's why, when the National Institute of Conductive Education dedicated a new building in Birmingham, England, this fall, Susanna was invited to speak. Susanna's parents and brother flew with her to England where, on Oct. 31, she spoke in front of Princess Di and other gathered dignitaries. Susanna said, "I hope in the future children in America will be able to have conductive education like children in England have." Conductive education was developed hidden behind the Iron Curtain in post-war Hungary. Americans tend to accept the limitations of cerebral palsy and have developed high-tech wheelchairs and computers to help children adapt. But the cash-poor Hungarians could not afford this approach. Instead they trained teachers, called conductors, to actually teach children to walk. They used small wooden furniture, stories and songs to cue the children's bodies to move properly. Children with cerebral palsy in the United States might see a physical therapist once a week. The therapist manipulates their bodies to prevent them from becoming stiff. But in Hungary, the children spend six hours a day learning to move their arms and legs themselves. It wasn't until the 1980s that the outside world began to hear of the Hungarian approach. It's now available in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Israel, Austria, New Zealand and Canada. But it's nearly impossible to find in the United States. One of the few American schools is Sweeney's, located in a daylight basement on Spokane's North Side. For five summers, Sweeney has flown a Hungarian teacher to Spokane to duplicate the training Susanna received in Budapest. The children made progress during the summer, but as with any fitness regimen, they lost ground through inactivity during the school year. This fall, Sweeney began an after-school program for eight children that will continue their gains through the school year. It's been a remarkable accomplishment, given the typically American indifference to education and health care developed outside of this country. Sweeney has been particularly frustrated by the lack of interest from the United Cerebral Palsy Associations in the United States. The group has provided neither research nor advocacy for Conductive Education. When she discovered that a New York City affiliate of the organization is planning to give Princess Diana a humanitarian award in New York this month, primarily for her support of Conductive Education in England, Sweeney was stunned by the irony. After the dedication ceremony in Birmingham, Sweeney talked to a reporter from The Birmingham Post. The newspaper ran a story headlined, "Di urged to boycott award in wrangle over U.S. charity." The story quoted Sweeney on Princess Diana: "She seemed really interested in what we were doing in the USA and surprised it (Conductive Education) is not really established in the country. "I think she has no idea what is going on. I am sure it is a big award and she is a wonderful person. But the situation is ironical, to say the least." Back in Spokane, Sweeney laughs over the furor caused by the few remarks she made to the British reporter. But her exasperation with the United Cerebral Palsy Associations continues. Susanna was born 4 months premature, weighing 1 pound 3 ounces. She couldn't breathe on her own, and the loss of oxygen damaged the motor center in her brain. She has both athetoid and spastic cerebral palsy. Her nerve cells send garbled messages from her brain to her arms, legs and feet, causing them to move randomly. Now, thanks to Conductive Education, she can sit in a regular chair, touch her feet to the ground and hold her trunk much straighter. She wears splints to help her stand, and she can walk holding her mother's hands. When the syndicated television news magazine "The Crusaders" filmed a piece about Conductive Education a year ago, Susanna was the star. "I'm going to do whatever I want, however I want to do it. Period," she announced firmly to the camera. Susanna serves on the Principal's Cabinet at Jefferson School and recently won a spot on the school drill team. She loves to swim and hopes one day to join the Para- Olympics racing team. She's still amazed that she managed to meet the princess. After the program, the princess surprised Susanna and her mother by sitting down to chat. "You must be very proud," Princess Diana told Susannas mother. Sweeney remembers fumbling through her answers to the princess's questions and listening to her daughter chat as though she converses with royalty every day. Sweeney also met Countess llona Esterhazy, one of the last of the Hapsburgs of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. The countess was surprised to hear that Conductive Education was not widely available in the United States and offered to help. Sweeney has mortgaged her house to the hilt and spent $70,000 on Conductive Education and Susannas special needs. She was tempted to ask the countess to help pay for their plane tickets to England. after five years of flying in teachers from Hungary and paying their salaries, Sweeney is nearly broke. But she perseveres because she believes that relying on American treatments will only limit Susanna' future. As she finds alternatives, she shares what she's learned with other parents. She knows they share the same drive. "We're not crazy, we're not looking for miracles, we're not nuts. We're just chugging along looking for what works," Sweeney says. And so she has written a letter to the Princess of Wales at Kensington Palace in London. "Your Royal Highness," it begins "I am writing to ask if you might intercede with the United Cerebral Palsy group when you are in the United States...."

While I am extremely upset at the death of Diana I can only wonder, and have said ever since the accident, that while the papparazzi have to accept a large part of the blame for Dianas unhappiness in life and for her death, the fact remains that the driver of the car should not have endangered his employers by driving in such a manner, regardless of their wishes. His profession ( and mine, I am an australian cab driver ) is reliant on being able to perform our duties without endangering ourselves or other and as it has now come out, he should not have even been in the drivers seat. I hate to say it but both Diana and Dodi did contribute to their own deaths by allowing him to drive them at all. From reports of his B.A.C. his drunkeness should have been obvious and personally I will not let anyone drive with me in the car if they have had even one drink let alone the amount he musrt have consumed, so their decision to get in that car was, without hindsight even, was stupid. My sympathies lie with her belove sons who now have to face a life without the most important person to them, their doting mother,

It is always sad when a kind, generous and warm hearted mum dies and leaves behind children. It is even more of a saddness when the parents are no longer in unison through divorce separation on even a previous death of one of the parents. Every day such occurrences are happening to unfamed mothers..., every day hundreds of children are dying because of an uncaring world. Does the media spend days and days on the sadness !! and draw out attention to the sorrow ??? A true reflection of peoples feelings, those who want to share their sympathy and saddness would not to have spent the thousands of dollars on flowers(much to the pleasure of the florist) but to give it as a donation in the memory of Diana to one of the many charities she sponsored.

Diana's funeral will be like none other in British royal history. There may be an outpouring of sentiment from people with AIDS, homeless people, and others. It will be an unprecedented event. The first tabloid pictures of Diana at the crash scene have been published by http://www.bild.de. Write to der bild, a German tabloid, and tell them you no longer support their publication.

To quote airman (airman@well.com): That is it. We are covering old ground. It's time to do this by the numbers.... In the future we can simply refer to a number to assign blame. So we have the following list of suspects to blame as cited in various sources on the WELL, in the media and on the street 1. The Paparazzi who chased her 2. The Editors who buy Paparazzi pictures 3. The People who buy the tabloids 4. The Driver who was drunk and speeding 5. Her Boyfriend who was famous and infamous 6. Di, for using the press and not using seatbelts 7. The Media who is saintly invoking the Free Speech mantra 8. The Royal Family for wrecking her life 9. Mercedes for building a tank that could go 120 mph 10. The Motorcycles for really being annoying 11. Dino Delaurentis for inventing the Paparazzo 12. The Masses of People behaving like "Day of the LOcust"

We are all to blame for this and similar tragedies. We are blood thirsty animals parading around in the guise of humanity. If the people were not interested in filth and tragedy others would not serve it to us thus the need for vampirous photographers (loose term) would not exist.

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Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with a muffled drum, Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplances circle moaning overhead, Scribbling on the sky the message "She is Dead", Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. She was our North, our South, our East and West, Our working week and our Sunday rest, Our noon, our midnight, our talk, our song; We thought that love would last forever: We were wrong. The stars are not wanted now; put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood; For nothing now can ever come to any good. W.H. Auden

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I am also very sorry about Diana's tragic death. It seems there were several factors involved -- not just the paparazzi, but the limo driver going way too fast & being legally drunk. Before we leap all over the press, let's remember that what we know of Diana -- the reason she is in fact so popular -- was brought to us courtesy of journalists & photographers. Not the sleazy supermarket stuff, but the coverage of her charitable trips abroad, etc. In any case, she will be greatly missed, & Prince Willia has some very big shoes to fill.

I saw a small story yesterday about a white buffalo calf being born and the indian myth surrounding such an event. The story is interesting to me in that from the buffalo comes a princess to usher in 600 years of unprecidented world peace. Would it not be a great tribute to Diana if the world could see the loss we have all suffered and allow her to become that peace bearing princess we all so need.

Sometimes in our rush to lay blame we forget that Diana was, as Amy said, a creation of her photographs. The blame is multifaceted and includes so many factors. And William does have a major burden to bear, hopefully he will carry Diana's charitable, selfless spirit into his kingship some day.

You can tell a lot about society by the people it respects, and the current obsession with Diana death shows a society that is clearly uneasy with itself. Diana was no JFK, Luther King or Ghandi. She was never elected to anything, and never made one memorable speech. If holding few charity balls or selling some glad rags (that she never paid for in the first place) is all it takes to make you a 'great humanitarian' then people must have little respect for humanity. In any other time Diana would be seen as a rather pathetic creature who could not handle the stresses of private and public life. Yet today. 'admitting' that we can't cope is what we are told we should aspire to and 'what made Diana so great'. Well I'm sorry, but I can't imagine Elizabeth the First saying "oh its just too much pressure" when the Spanish Armada was about to destroy her Kingdom, and Queen Victoria never seemed to develop any eating disorders despite having the largest empire in the world and the loss of her 'beloved Alfred'. It seems the days of expecting great things from our leaders are over, and if people expect nothing of their leaders then they must expect even less of themselves.

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Diana's brothers eulogy was stark and revealing about the conditions of Diana's life and her place in history. He put a lot of things in their place, including the assembled royal family. I think this should be the lead story in tonights evening news. By the way, thanks to everyone posting here for the overwhelming response.

Spring's headline today: "like a candle in the wind" Earl Spencer told the world his views of the press, the way her sons would be raised by his side of the family, and about Diana's insecurities and eating disorders. In front of the Queen and Queen Mother he described how she wanted to bid farewell to England. He told of the irony that Diana the name of the huntress in mythology was the most hunted person in the word (by the ravenous media). He laid it on the line like only a brother could and the ripples of applause and shock that reverberated throughout England and the world and made their way back through the staid, royal audience in the church. The Elton John phrase is pretty much in line with (jonl) 's comments. She's to be buried on an island in the middle of a lake. Kind of reminds me of the place where I lived in Dogtown, California years ago.

The full text of Earl Spencer's eulogy to Princess Diana: � �I STAND BEFORE YOU today the representative of a family in grief, in a country in mourning before a world in shock. � � � �We are all united not only in our desire to pay our respects to Diana but rather in our need to do so. � � � �For such was her extraordinary appeal that the tens of millions of people taking part in this service all over the world via television and radio who never actually met her, feel that they, too, lost someone close to them in the early hours of Sunday morning. It is a more remarkable tribute to Diana than I can ever hope to offer her today. � � � �Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality, someone with a natural nobility who was classless, who proved in the last year that she needed no royal title to continue to generate her particular brand of magic. � � � �Today is our chance to say thank you for the way you brightened our lives, even though God granted you but half a life. We will all feel cheated that you were taken from us so young and yet we must learn to be grateful that you came along at all. � � � �Only now you are gone do we truly appreciate what we are now without and we want you to know that life without you is very, very difficult. � � � �We have all despaired at our loss over the past week and only the strength of the message you gave us through your years of giving has afforded us the strength to move forward. � � � �There is a temptation to rush to canonize your memory. There is no need to do so. You stand tall enough as a human being of unique qualities not to need to be seen as a saint. Indeed to sanctify your memory would be to miss out on the very core of your being, your wonderfully mischievous sense of humor with the laugh that bent you double, your joy for life transmitted wherever you took your smile, and the sparkle in those unforgettable eyes, your boundless energy which you could barely contain. � � � �But your greatest gift was your intuition, and it was a gift you used wisely. This is what underpinned all your wonderful attributes. And if we look to analyze what it was about you that had such a wide appeal, we find it in your instinctive feel for what was really important in all our lives. � � � �Without your God-given sensitivity, we would be immersed in greater ignorance at the anguish of AIDS and HIV sufferers, the plight of the homeless, the isolation of lepers, the random destruction of land mines. Diana explained to me once that it was her innermost feelings of suffering that made it possible for her to connect with her constituency of the rejected. � � � �And here we come to another truth about her. For all the status, the glamour, the applause, Diana remained throughout a very insecure person at heart, almost childlike in her desire to do good for others so she could release herself from deep feelings of unworthiness of which her eating disorders were merely a symptom. � � � �The world sensed this part of her character and cherished her for her vulnerability, whilst admiring her for her honesty. The last time I saw Diana was on July the first, her birthday, in London, when typically she was not taking time to celebrate her special day with friends but was guest of honor at a charity fund-raising evening. � � � �She sparkled of course, but I would rather cherish the days I spent with her in March when she came to visit me and my children in our home in South Africa. I am proud of the fact that apart from when she was on public display meeting President Mandela, we managed to contrive to stop the ever-resent paparazzi from getting a single picture of her. � � � �That meant a lot to her. � � � �These are days I will always treasure. It was as if wed been transported back to our childhood, when we spent such an enormous amount of time together, the two youngest in the family. � � � �Fundamentally she hadnt changed at all from the big sister who mothered me as a baby, fought with me at school and endured those long train journeys between our parents homes with me at weekends. It is a tribute to her level-headedness and strength that despite the most bizarre life imaginable after her childhood, she remained intact, true to herself. I dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media. ... My own ... explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. EARL SPENCER � � � �There is no doubt that she was looking for a new direction in her life at this time. She talked endlessly of getting away from England, mainly because of the treatment she received at the hands of the newspapers. � � � �I dont think she ever understood why her genuinely good intentions were sneered at by the media, why there appeared to be a permanent quest on their behalf to bring her down. It is baffling. My own, and only, explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum. � � � �It is a point to remember that of all the ironies about Diana, perhaps the greatest is this; that a girl given the name of the ancient goddess of hunting was, in the end, the most hunted person of the modern age. � � � �She would want us today to pledge ourselves to protecting her beloved boys William and Harry from a similar fate. And I do this here, Diana, on your behalf. We will not allow them to suffer the anguish that used regularly to drive you to tearful despair. � � � �Beyond that, on behalf of your mother and sisters, I pledge that we, your blood family, will do all we can to continue the imaginative and loving way in which you were steering these two exceptional young men, so that their souls are not simply immersed by duty and tradition but can sing openly as you planned. � � � �We fully respect the heritage into which they have both been born, and will always respect and encourage them in their royal role. But we, like you, recognize the need for them to experience as many different aspects of life as possible, to arm them spiritually and emotionally for the years ahead. I know you would have expected nothing less from us. � � � �William and Harry, we all care desperately for you today. We are all chewed up with sadness at the loss of a woman who wasnt even our mother. How great your suffering is we cannot even imagine. � � � �I would like to end by thanking God for the small mercies he has shown us at this dreadful time; for taking Diana at her most beautiful and radiant and when she had so much joy in her private life. � � � �Above all, we give thanks for the life of a woman I am so proud to be able to call my sister: the unique the complex, the extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana, whose beauty, both internal and external, will never be extinguished from our minds.

Mother Teresa and Princess Diana met in Rome five years ago and then in New York in June. Mother Teresa said, just before she died Friday, that Princess Diana was a good friend "in love with the poor, a very good wife, a very good mother." "She was very concerned for the poor. She was very anxious to do something for them," Mother Teresa said. "This is why she was close to me." I was first exposed to Mother Teresa on the Farm in Tennessee, where Stephen and the Farm folks idolized her and spoke of her often. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity to help Calcutta's sick and destitute. A 1969 BBC documentary detailing her mission brought her international fame. By 1975, she was in Time magazine in a story entitled, "Living Saints, Messengers of Hope in Our time." In 1979, she won the Nobel Peace Prize, using the $192,000 award to further her work. It was a contrast and an alliance of anomalies: the tall, stunning Princess and the short hunched over Catholic nun. The $50,000 Dior outfit and the $1 sari. Yet they complemented each other and the photographs of them together said more to help the poor and the disenfranchised than volumes of words. It is fitting that they both died within days of each other.

The death of Mother Theresa is an immense loss for humanity. She was a living example of the human capacity to generate infinite love, compassion and altruism. Her work and life embodied these noble and universal human values for people all over the world across the barriers of race, nationality, culture and religion. Today's world requires us to realise and accept the oneness of humanity and develop a sense of universal responsibility and caring. Although mordern science and technology had made greate contributions in solving many of mankind's problems, it is obvious that the challenges and issues faced by the global community today require us to cultivate not only the rational mind but also the other faculties of the human spirit; the power of love, compassion and solidarity. Mother Theresa was a towering embodiment of this human spirit and her great compassion an inspiring example of the true essence and potential of spiritual life. The Dalai Lama

All of this has an air of incredibility, its hard to believe that the world has lost to completely special people. As for the paparazzi, they should be publically humiliated so everyone knows exactly who they are, so they can be chastised by there own industry. I heard a report from a I witness that they saw flashes from cameras as the car was crashing! The same witness said the wreck was caused by a motorcycle that cut in front of the car forcing the car into the pillars in the middle of the tunnel. T e two riders on that bike should be hung from a tree in the middle of Pickadilly Square! One of my writers was so moved by the death of Diana that she was compelled to write an editorial from a mothers point of view. Please come by to read it, over 500 people have read it since the 3rd. http://www.capitol-city.com Another writer sent ma a pointed editorial as well it can also be found at Capitol-city A&E Magazine. Stop the Paparazzi!!!!! It gives us real photographersa real bad name!

Is there any trees in Pickadilly Square?

I got an incredible letter from Earl Spencer's neighbor in South Africa today. I hope he allows me to reprint it. I have written him for permission. It is very profound.

Received from Grant Pollard, Earl Spencers neighbor in S Africa You seem to have made quite a considerable contribution to this site. I am in South Africa and live just down the road from Princess Diana's brother. I happened to catch the CNN and BBC news flash that Diana had been involved in an accident and stayed up the whole night awaiting developments as they happened. It was a devastating experience for reasons beyond the obvious that even I cannot explain. I was as shattered by Diana's passing as I was by my own Mother's death by suicide when I was 15. My empathy with the young princes was natural. I phoned relatives in London who were amongst the first to deliver flowers to Diana's home and delivered a boquet of flowers from my own garden very early on Sunday morning to Earl Spencer's home. Here I was unfortunately accosted by the world's media and extensively reported upon in both local and international papers and TV. A few remarks: Have there been any paint marks found on either the car-wreck or a motor cycle to indicated any contact? The Paris road engineers ought to be hung for not providing any crash barriers along the concrete columns.........they are natural death traps and this would have been foreseen in any other country! 8 glasses of wine for a Frenchman is not "drunk". It's normal! Had he not been distracted or otherwise diverted the party would have gotten home 120mph in a Merc 600 on an empty double carriage way is not fast! Photographers should be governed by similar rules to sex. If the subject says "NO" it means no and any further advances become criminal. Given the tragedy as a fait accomplis, it could not have turned out better! Diana would not have wanted to survive with all the others dead. Dodi would certainly not have enjoyed surviving Diana and all the accusations that would have been levelled at him. The driver would certainly not have enjoyed surviving. But the body-gaurd has lived as a wittness. I hope the powers that be realise the danger he is in as the only real wittness and also ensure that his testimony is not influenced by being allowed to be exposed to any of the speculation that has been going on. His testimony HAS to be fresh and un-influenced to be worh a damn. God rest your blessed soul Diana and God help you Prince William!

More from Grant Pollard, Earl's nighbor in South Africa. > Thanks for your reply Terry. Yes you may quote me. I'll offer a little something extra for an inteligent mind to take for a little walk. Each may draw their own conclusions according to their personal persuasions but why did Princess Diana die at exactly the right moment in time? As it is, Diana died without a single adverse comment about her personally or her work emerging from any paper, person or country. (Brave the person who tried right now!) The work Diana was possibly sent to do was done! The many wheels she set in motion are not going to stop simply because she is gone, in fact her work will quite possibly continue gathering momentum BECAUSE she is gone. Diana's children are both old enough to have formed the characters and attributes she wished for them to have. Had Diana survived even another day the speculation about her spending the night in Dodi's house alone would have gone mad. This would have alienated all the holders of moral high ground, a very large chunk of the world! Had she survived a few more months she was quite probably going to marry Dodi. This would have caused a catastrophic rift between Moslem and Christian, a rift she had up until then managed to bridge and a rift that is bad enough without being exasserbated! Had she survived a little longer we might have seen Moslem children forming part of the Royal Family which would have been an enormous technical hitch causing yet more fragmentation amongst her people. The disintigration of Diana's quite extraordinary mission to all the peoples who now so sincerely mourn her being taken from us would have continued at every turn in this dreadful world of prejudice and tradition. Sad as it may seem (for us) Diana died at just the moment she was supposed to, happy and preserved in our minds for ever just as she was!

Thanks for the info, Terry. It is true that Diana's life and death could have been viewed quite differently had she died earlier or later. I suppose that "higher powers" have their plans and that what appears to most of us as a life cut tragicly short can be the full life the person was intended to live. My mother-in-law, who is a shut-in, has been living by her television since this happened and seems to be taking Diana's death harder than she might that of a close friend or relative. How much of the public grief expressed over Diana's death do you think was media-made? In other words, if the television wasn't showing us lines of mourners waiting to offer flowers and sign condolence books, do you think the public outpouring of grief would have been as large? Particularly in this country (I can underst nd it among the British)?

As this event starts to fade in this country, I hear that in France and Britain this is still very much in the forefront. Thanks to all the folks who have posted in this topic and those who have granted reprint permission is in order. Many lonely people need events like these to fill their lives, the OJ trial did this for many people for months on end. It is good that many of Diana's charities will be much better off now because of the interest she created and the efforts to support them now in her memory.

I know that it is idealistic to expect people to become more than they are because of the loss of Diana, whether paparazzi or intoxicated driver. But would'nt it be great if we could all show each other as much love as she showed us.

What is the address of your new Diana page?

So now Prince Charles is taking Prince Harry to see the Spice Girls in concert in S Africa, looks like he's trying to pick up for Diana.

Looks like it.

Isn't this the one year anniversery?

Princess Di Crash Revisited Just when Camilla Parker Bowles thought she was going to get her day in the royal sun, a new investigation into the crash that killed Princess Di seven years ago is threatening to steal her spotlight. Also, after acting indignant about Chancellor Schroeder's suggestions for NATO reforms, the alliance's chief apparently agrees with him. The (Not Quite) Royal Charlie Brown AP Investigators on Tuesday closed down the Pont d'Alma tunnel once again to reinvestigate the crash that killed Princess Diana. Camilla Parker Bowles is the ultimate Charlie Brown. The poor woman never seems to get a break. She's carried on a 35-year-old relationship with Prince Charles, undeniably the love of her life, and now -- finally -- after years of being scoffed at by the royal family and lambasted by the British public who much preferred their beloved "Queen of Hearts," Lady Diana -- she is set to have her big day. A few days ago, she and Charles broke their surprising news that they will wed. Even more stunningly, not only the Queen, but also the public seem to be giving their grudging nod to what for Camilla will be a belated fairy tale come true. But now, during her week of glee, Camilla's rival has again reared her long-dead, but never-forgotten glamorous blonde head. British investigators have begun a new hunt for clues to Diana's death in a Paris car crash seven years ago. The crash has already been analyzed more times than anyone cares to count by French police, who ultimately concluded that the driver, Henri Paul was drunk and driving at a high speed when he crashed into a concrete column supporting the Pont d'Alma tunnel on the morning of Aug. 31, 1997. Paul also died, as did Diana's then boyfriend, millionaire Dodi al Fayad. Paul's parents have disputed the charges in a French court, insisting the blood analyzed by police was not that of their son. The British opened an inquest into the death last year and now plan to use super-high-tech laser equipment to scan the tunnel and use computers to recreate a model of exactly how the crash occurred. Such technology was not available seven years ago. British police haven't said how much the complica ed recreation will cost, but it is not hard to come up with ways the money could better be spent. (Finishing school for Diana's youngest, the wild Prince Harry, perhaps?) Knowing Camilla's bad luck, the results of the new Diana investigation will probably be revealed on April 8, the day of her wedding to Prince Charles. (2:35 p.m. CET) from Der Spiegel